Fred's MiG 19

[fredk]

A nice MiG 19 from KP;


That sprue in the middle has a multitudinous of parts for the bumps around the MiG airframe!




Decals with this kit are just Russian and Czech, so I'll have to print up some North Vietnamese markings. I've been looking at 'Wings Palette' for ideas on this one.

[ShaunW]

Excellent, another great choice, nice to see something from the other side as it were. That looks to be a nice simple kit Fred. I like these old Cold War Soviet jets. Remind me to dig out my Tamiya MiG-15 at some point

[Chris]

Nice choice.

[fredk]

Slight change of plan; Hannants have a sheet of North Vietnamese national markings, which includes some for MiG 19, so I'll buy these rather than print my own. The quality will be better, and I prefer to print as a last resort sort of thing.

[Dazzled]

I've built one of these before. It's a bit soft on detail, particularly the cockpit, and a little fiddly with all those intake ducts to glue on, but, with a pilot in place and some careful fettling and finishing it does make a very decent model. This is definitely one of KPs better offerings.

Looking forward to seeing this one in the NVAF markings too. It's nice to see another "Charlie" aircraft to balance things out a bit .

[Old_Tonto]

This is great to see Fred.
I did this kit for the last Nam group build.

[Saxon]

Funny how we still don't have too many Mig 19's by some of the major players. Looking forward to seeing this done.

[fredk]

Thats one cracker job on your MiG Old_Tonto. I hope I can do mine as good.

I've put this in my F5A build;
Sorry; not made a start on this yet. I've been caught up writing 5 special ghost stories and learning them for some perfomances tonight and over the next week. I hope to get started and finished over the few days from Staurday evening.

Funny how we still don't have too many Mig 19's by some of the major players.

The Mig 17 & 19 and the early Sukhois are badly under-represented in my opinion.

[ShaunW]

I've put this in my F5A build;
Sorry; not made a start on this yet. I've been caught up writing 5 special ghost stories and learning them for some perfomances tonight and over the next week. I hope to get started and finished over the few days from Staurday evening.

The Mig 17 & 19 and the early Sukhois are badly under-represented in my opinion.

No worries Fred, hopefully you will be able to catch up with these builds. I agree, these aircraft are poorly represented and personally I'd like to see a nice 1/48th scale MiG 17 and/or 19. So, you are an author and thespian eh? sounds intriguing

[fredk]

yeah, an auffer wont cant spell 'Saturday'

[ShaunW]

yeah, an auffer wont cant spell 'Saturday'

I noticed the typo but I'm too much of a gentleman to draw attention to it

[Dazzled]

Thats one cracker job on your MiG Old_Tonto. I hope I can do mine as good.

I've put this in my F5A build;
Sorry; not made a start on this yet. I've been caught up writing 5 special ghost stories and learning them for some perfomances tonight and over the next week. I hope to get started and finished over the few days from Staurday evening.

Funny how we still don't have too many Mig 19's by some of the major players.

The Mig 17 & 19 and the early Sukhois are badly under-represented in my opinion.

As some of you may know, I have a bit of an interest in Mig aircraft. The -17 isn't too badly represented in 72nd, 48th and even 32nd scales but the -19 is quite widely ignored. It's quite a big gap (IMHO) in the model market considering that over 2,100 were built, excluding the Chinese versions and they were used by 2 dozen operators worldwide. In fact the only 1/72nd scale kit that I'm aware of is the KP offering.